adoption will now remain in russia. activists denounce that move. >> it's not surprising that there's political retribution, that there's a political tit for tat. that's not surprising. but what's shocking is that they're putting the well being of children at risk for the sake of political retribution. that has to stop. >> that ban will go into effect january 1st. >>> stay with us. there's much more ahead on wbal news saturday morning. >>> coming up in sports, we'll check out what got him in trouble with the league. those stories straight ahead. hqq >>> good morning. we knew about ed reed's $55,000 fine for his hit on victor cruz that i and most anyone seemed to think was an okay play. the nfl said it needs to target ed reed for the way he's been playing. but also that game against the giants there was another fine. one that tagged his teammate michael oher. you see 94, chop block. would have been okay except for his teammate also engaged nuka. therefore it was a penalty. that made sense. i don't understand though. mich